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It'd say that the biggest risk is an ICE vehicle starting a fire that then ignites a nearby EV, making the fire substantially harder to manage. Of course you _could _ mitigate that risk by banning all ICE vehicles from the car park, but you can probably see why that solution won't fly right...

They've switched their holiday update from celebrating Christmas to celebrating May Day 😀

When I collected my M3 they turned the hazards on remotely to help me find it in the car park. Which is mildly interesting, because I don't think turning the hazards on is something that we as customers can do from the app, right?

The signage is very clear so if you've already decided you want to take the M6 Toll (which I'd recommend) then just follow the road signs. I just find it annoying that the voice guidance is non-existant at these junctions. I mean I know which way I'm planning to go, but the whole point of the...

But I think they still get the M6 Toll wrong, and give you no indication that they want you to leave the M6 for the M6 Toll - presumably because you are just keeping right. That's been a peeve of mine for as long as I've had the car.

Sure, all the planning and control is procedural code, but vision is done with neural nets. If the training set didn't include particular kinds of markings that are peculiar to the UK, the net is highly likely to be less accurate at recognising those markings, compared to other styles of...

My theory has always been that the neural net doesn't reliably recognise the particular style of lane marking we use at junctions. If it fails to see the lane marking, it just thinks the lane is widening to the left and keeps left.

It's not a car, it's a "sophisticated computer on wheels". And no one washes their computer! I rest my case 😀

Not exactly. It's more about the use of cameras at all. No one other than Tesla has attempted to do auto wipers with cameras - everyone else uses a rain sensor.

Based on the YouTube videos I've watched, I'm pretty sure that the car was just ignoring "no turn on red" signs. It's down to the human driver to intervene in those cases. Maybe sometimes the restrictions are mapped, but pretty sure that even quite recently there was no recognition of the sign.

Re roads, I'd agree, but actually, I'd say that in some respects US signs are harder for autonomous vehicles. Fewer standardised symbols and more textual signs, for one. Sadly FSD doesn't (yet) understand text. This is a big deal in America. The biggie is turn on red. In the US, you can...

I was on a bend the other week (roundabout I think but can't be sure now) with the steering wheel turned pretty much exactly 180º, and something annoyingly loud came on the radio. I turned the volume down. After doing so, I realised that I had, without really having to thing about it, turned...

Yeah, the seemingly industry standard 79p/kWh is bad enough - I'm not sure what Instavolt's justification is for charging 85p. I confess I hadn't really realised until recently just how huge the price gap is between Superchargers and the third party charging networks (which I relatively rarely...

One other problem with inclusion of non Tesla chargers is that in some areas I believe a lot of the eg Instavolt sites displayed can be 2 charger sites, whereas Superchargers are, of course, almost always larger hubs (Brent Cross being the only 2 charger Supercharger site I'm aware of)...

It's usually not an issue, but on occasion you can be in a situation where there are a lot of third party chargers nearby that make the grade for inclusion, which can make it hard to find the Superchargers (which you might favour for reasons of speed, cost, reliability and/or convenience)...

That sounds like Obstacle-Aware Acceleration. It goes hand in hand with Automatic Emergency Braking. Most new cars have it now, I think, for the forward direction. I have a feeling Tesla might implement it now in reverse, too, which is pretty unusual, I think.

It also potentially means that using the brake pedal won't automatically disengage adaptive cruise control. Make sure you know how to disengage it manually. On an M3 with stalks, you push the stalk up to disengage autopilot. Be aware, though, that if autopilot is _not_ already engaged...

I'm guessing most will be pre-refresh model S/X (before phone key). As the traditional (rather than Bluetooth) keys make relay attacks far easier. Plus, I'm led to believe, the older S/X (maybe only MCU1?) have a known PIN-to-drive bypass.

Amazing how this varies. I just looked on the comparison sites a couple of weeks ago to find out what I'm likely looking at at my next renewal, given all the talk of rates increasing across the board (my renewal's not due until June). I paid around £1,500 last year with Privilege (Churchill...

Specifically, this is the incident I was thinking of. Owner seems to be arguing that they just drove the car in heavy rain. Subtext seems to be that Tesla are claiming it's flood water damage and are charging £17,000 for a non-warranty repair...

The Tesla warranty won't cover damage resulting from flood water. Although the risk may be small, if you get water ingress into the HV battery you're looking at a very expensive non-warranty battery replacement. You might be inclined to argue that the battery seals must have been faulty to...

Pretty sure that, even with AC turned off, the heat pump will still be used for thermal management of the drive train and battery - it's integral to how the newer cars work

I think they was an idea that once the neural nets are fully optimised, it will all fit in one node again, but I suggest you take that with a very large pinch of low-sodium salt substitute.

Wouldn't surprise me if it's related, given it doesn't appear that the repeater issue is an issue being reported by others. Remember that there are two autopilot computer nodes - essentially two independent autopilot computers on the same board. The original idea was to run identical software...

Sounds like your AP computer crashed and failed to successfully reboot. Once that happens you won't get it back until the car sleeps, thus powering down the AP computer. Could well be an issue in this software release - but keep an eye on it as it could be a faulty autopilot computer.

That was the autopilot computer crashing and rebooting. Usually (but not always) a software issue.

I've never really understood what this achieves, given the car reboots itself at the end of the update process anyway. Not disagreeing with people's experience that a two button reset after an update can help - I just don't understand how or why.

Well, they could take away their chargers and put them somewhere else, I guess, if the Hilton doesn't want them....

From the pictures I've seen, it's just red=objects very close, yellow=objects fairly close, grey=everything else.

It's very odd. Parked in the exact same location, I can sometimes have the car showing a good, strong LTE signal, and other times showing no LTE at all. It's clear that something is not right with the cars' network connectivity.

I wonder if this is related to the way that EE (and Three) have to block access to band 20 from phones that don't support (or aren't provisioned for) VoLTE? Just speculating, but if Teslas don't (consistently) have access to band 20 on EE, then the degradation of service could be related to...

Visiting my mum at the moment and the car always used to get signal here but not reachable on the app right now. Woke the car up by unlocking and locking again and still can't access via the app. It's definitely got worse. Sounds like Tesla is aware of the issues, from what I've heard...

Maybe it changed at some point. I'm pretty sure that (ages ago) it used to say "preconditioning - tap to cancel". But maybe I just imagined that.

Also can use a lot of energy if the car is preconditioning the battery for charging, of course. If I'm unexpectedly running very low I'll sometimes cancel preconditioning, as the car seems to be willing to run the battery much lower than I feel comfortable with.

Distance I get. But I rarely spend much time driving inside structures 😀

Traffic jams should use very little energy unless you are using a lot of energy for cabin heating or cooling....

I'd be rather surprised if it didn't. Pretty much all DAB radios sold in recent years support DAB+. I think Tesla would probably struggle to find a DAB chipset that doesn't. Plus, I was under the impression that DAB+ is widely used in a number of European countries. That said, this is Tesla...

Can happen in either order. Sometimes the signs are put up before the TRO - in that case there's a period of time when the newly signed limit can't be enforced.

My suspicion is My suspicion is that they are using new code/nets that are US-optimized for their wider lanes and as a result easily get "scared" by how close we drive to cars in the next lane... EDITED TO ADD: I mean, new code/nets derived from the FSD Beta work, which inevitably has not been...

Of course, and site-level power sharing is absolutely the right way to go. But it's also easy to imagine that there may be situations where an average of 83kW per stall is less than ideal for a busy motorway site - hence why we may see sites with a lower than 4:1 stall-to-cabinet ratio.

Right, so a fraction (about a third, give or take) of what would be required to supply the full 250kW to each stall on the cabinet. It's not just V2 sites that share power - what's not generally understood is that V3 sites clearly must do, too. The difference is that V3 has a DC bus connecting...

Many people (including me) have been having wake problems on and off for a few months. I don't think it's version specific. FWIW it's currently working for me more often than not right now, although it's not perfect. I'm on 32.6 at the moment.

I believe that their usual trick is to make some small changes to the terms of the policy each year. The exact policy that you're renewing isn't available to new customers so - they no doubt believe - there's no new customer price for that policy that they are legally obliged to match. Sooner...

Plus an additional sign at the SuC, which was also posted to the group, saying: TESLA PARKING IS NOT FREE. PAYMENT MUST BE MADE WHEN USING THE CHARGING POINT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TARIFF ON SITE. So that's pretty unambiguous, sadly - no concessions for charging :( They even wrote it in...

We have gallons in the UK?? The only fluid for which we use imperial measure is beer, and that isn't generally served in gallons (AFAIK). 😂

Can't say I'm impressed with it on mine. Between maps being out of date and picking up speed limits on side roads, it does a poor job in town. Maybe slightly better on the motorway, but still has problems with variable speed limits and temporary restrictions, etc. Also doesn't correctly...

The thing that interests me most about the EU regulatory "intelligent speed assist" is that it mandates that the car displays the current speed limit (which of course most cars do) but it also mandates minimum accuracy levels as to proportion of time that the displayed limit is actually correct...

Auto speed changes do seem to be a bit hit and miss. But I wish they'd be enabled for TACC, too - in my experience they only happen with autosteer (or presumably NoA) but if you just have TACC enabled then they never seem to happen.

User @Snax over on the SpeakEV forums maintains (by hand) a map of larger (6+ or maybe now 5+) hubs open to all vehicles. (It also includes some Tesla-only sites but that is incomplete) Map is here Charging Hub Locations - Google My Maps Thread is here Charging Hub Locations - post there if...

I think Tesla broke something a while ago. In the last few months, more often than not I cannot wake the car. I have also - rarely - had the car have no mobile connectivity when I unlock it. Yet in the first 18 months of ownership it was nearly flawless. If I had to guess, I'd say that...